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8     serve  dnrinr  the  'war. 
4     the  name  are  U  be 

0  insert' <1  the  following,  to  wit : 

1  11    laws   gran  tin  fary 

nil  be  err 

4  All  who 

5  to  be  preecril  0  ;  by  the  Secretary  <  f  War. 

6  I  Vice-Preeideift  of  the   < 
officers 

8     tares,   and   inch  'on federate  e    officer*    • 


3 

9  |                                                                  States  m*vy  declare  to  be 

I  v   for  the  proper  'ration  of  the  Confederate  or 

II  State  Government; 

12  III.  in  the   regular  discharge  of 

13  his  i  day  of  February, 
[4  ,                                                                                 th«  rules 

lo  usages  of  the  denomination   to  which  he  belonged,  tho  pastoral 

16  care  of  a  religious   congregation  j^but  no    minister  of  religion 

17  shall  be  exempted  under  this  act  who  has,  at  any  time  during  the 

18  war,  engaged,  or  who  shall  hereafter  engage,  in  buying  and  sell- 

19  ing  for  profit ;  superintendents    and    physicians    of  asylums  for 

20  the    deaf,    dumb,  and    blind,   and  of  the    insane,  and  nurses  in 

21  asylums  for  the  insane;  one   editor  for   each  newspaper  being 

22  published  at  at  the  time  of  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  such  practical 

23  printers  and  pressmen   as  said    ed  certify  on  oath  to  be 

24  indispensable  to  the  publication   of  such  newspaper  ;   the  p 

25  printer  of  the   Confederate    and    Stato    Gove; . 

2G  journeymen  printers  as  the   said   public  printer   shall  c 

27  oath  to  be   indispensable   to   pei  fi  <ne 

28  skilled  apothecary  in  each  apothecary  stoxn  busi- 

29  ness  as  such  apothecary  on  the   h  eighteen 

30  hundred  and  sixty-t-A  thout 

31  "  intermission  since  tb 

32  the  manufacture  of  drugs  and  medicines  to  the  value  of  twohun- 


3 

33  <ire<i 

34  crnn 

I  who 

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4't  •  thai!  i  shall  be 

41 

strict 
43 
44  t    he  will 

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t  the  ira- 

. 

49      ( 

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51      lege*,  th  who  have 

55 

56     twenty  student*  or  more  ,  all  »up< 


57  established  by  law  bej  cnth  day  of  October,  eigi. 

58  hundred    and    si.-  ;:ud    such   }  as  such 

59  superintendent  shall  certify,  on  oath,  to  be  indispensable  to  the 

60  proper  and  efficient  management  thereof. 

61  IV.  The  president,  treasurer,  auditor  and  superintendent  of 
G2  any  railroad  company  engaged  in  transportation  for  the  Govern- 

63  ment,  and  such  conductors,  engineers  and  skilled  artisans,  and 

64  also  such  other  employees,  over  forty-five  years  of  age,  as  the 

65  president  or  superintendent  shall  certify,  on  oath,  to  be  indis- 

66  pensable  to  the   efficient  operation   of  such  railroad  :  Provided, 

67  That  the  number  of  persons  exempted  by   this  act  on  any  rail- 

68  road  shall  not  exceed  two  per  mile  for  any  road  less  than  fifty 

69  miles    in  length,  which  owns  and   keeps  in   operation   its  own 

70  machine  shops,  nor  one  per  mile  for  any  road  over  fifty  miles  in 

71  length,  and  said  exempts  shall  be  reported  byname  and  descrip- 

72  tion,  with  the  names  of  any  who  may  have  left  the  employment 

73  of  said    company,  or  who  may  cease  to  be  indispensable  to. the 

74  efficient  operation  of  its  road,  at  least  once  a  month,  to  the  Sec- 

75  retary  of  War,  or  such  officer  as  he  may  designate  for  that  pur- 

76  pose:   And  provided,  further,  That  such  president  or  superinten- 

77  dent  shall,  in  each  such  monthly  report,  certify  on  oa:h,  that  no 
73  person  liable  to  military  service  has  been  employed  by  his  com- 

79  pany  since  the  passage  of  this  act,  in  any  position   in  which  it 

80  was  practicable  to  employ  one  not  liable  to  military  service,  and 


1  ' 

83  a  a  J   in 

33  .■ 

34  used  on  i 

S5  supe.  i  roads  si 

36  vickd,  in  conUined  »hs  i 

37  vent  of    Wer 

88  erap1 

89  upon  the  oath  of  the  nt  or  pi 

90  the  officers  and  employer  a  James  River  an<l   K 

91  .in  all,  one  for  every  thr 

92  miles  of   eai<l  canal  :    Pr  he  president  shall   be  re- 

93  quired  to  make  a  similar  oath,  and  m  ike  a  similar  monthly  return, 

94  to  those  require!  of  the  presidents  or  superintendents  of  railr 

95  V.   All  persons  who  are  now  regular  members  of  t: 

96  Friends  and  the  Aesoeian  leno- 

97  nists.     The  persons  so  e-  «hall   pay  in 
93  tax  of  five  hu:i ■:     i]   dollars   ] 

ketable  surplus  of  provisions  i  w  on  hand.  snd  » 

they  may  raise  *  exesof 

101  t.uies.  to   u  «   of    *« 

1<i3  me 

lit   nothing    herein    contained    shall    he  construed    m 


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epealing  tb.3  act  irfl   four 

-three,  en'itio'i  "  An  contrar  •    Bar* 

]U7  rjing  the   mails  of   the  Confederal 

.  from  uiili'ary  .service  :"    Pror  iiip- 

109  tions  granted  under  this   a  t  skall  itintre  whilst  th«  per* 

110  (  tpted  are  aetun'y  eftgageil  in  their  respec  .  suits 

111  or  occupations.      It  is  the  intent  of  Congress  that  the  exemption 

112  hereby   declared   applies    to  any  person  who  is  -   by   the 

113  Postmaster  General  as   a  miil  contractor,  according   co  the  law, 
1  1  J   whether  such  contractor  he,  at  the  time,  in  the  army  or  not;  but 

115  hereafter,  if  the   Postmaster  General  shall  accept  any  mail  con- 

116  tractor   under  the  v.ge  of  forty-five  years,  such   contractor  shall 

1 17  not  be  exempt  from  military  service  by  reason  of  such  contract. 
IIS         VII.   In  addition  to  the  foregoing  exemptions,  the   Secretary 
119  of  War,  under  the  direction  of  the  President,  may  grant  exemp- 
12!)  tions   or   details,  en    such  terms   as   he   may  prescribe,  to    such 

121  farmers,  planters    or   overseers,  as    he   may  be  satisfied  will    be 

122  more  useful    to  the  country   in  the  pursuits  of   agriculture  than 

123  in   the   military  service,     lie    may  also  exempt  or  detail,  upon 

124  such  terms  as  he  may  prescribe,  such  other  persons  as  he  may  be 

125  satisfied  ought  to  be  exempted  or   detailed  on  account  of  public 

126  necessity,  justice  or  equity,  and  he  may  revoke  such   orders  of 

127  detail   whenever    he  thinks  proper:   Povided,  Tint  details  for 
123  service  in  the  bureaus  unl  other  departments  of  Government   as 


129  non-expert*,  aivl  contractors  for  supplies. 

130  any  sense,  with  tl  ill,  if 


